"Hamletis replete with meaning—it encompasses the world bound in its intricate nutshell. It is, therefore, a feast for critics, and Bloom helps himself heartily. But the desolation of Learexists outside of meaning, and silence is the preferred response."

"The small, rectangular dioramas are reminiscent of Joseph Cornell, but while Cornell’s fragile collections are still and timeless, Son’s are dynamic, eternally fading; not Cornell’s held breath, but a single long, sighing exhalation."

"In America's thoroughly consumer culture, it should not be surprising that literal consumption is a cultural battleground, whether fought over the puritanical rigors of veganism, the hypochondriac mania of food sensitivities, the slow self-destruction of anorexia and obesity, or the righteous decadence of gourmet organics."

"It's easy today to imagine the Middle Ages as a time of great intellectual chaos, even stupidity. In fact, the Middle Ages was a time of great intellectual rigor and passion . . . when errors were made-and they often were-they were not the result of chaos, but the result of an excess of reason."

"There is certainly something of decay around Ueda’s elongated, wasting forms, all the more poignantly rendered in a medium easily bent, burned, or torn. Yet instead of the funeral stillness of a vanitas, Kako’s plant and insect forms are riotously living, even in the midst of death."